.... provided the server side supports the HEAD method, something which is not always the case. I you plan to performs thousands of requests in parallell, you certainly want it to be async. You also might want to consider https://github.com/AsyncHttpClient/async-http-client, which lets you stop reading the response after receiving the status code.
Stefan 2015-09-25 11:16 GMT+02:00 Karl Wettin <karl.wet...@kodapan.se>: > Perfect, thanks! > > > On 25 Sep 2015, at 04:10, Ryan Fulghum <ryan.fulgh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > HTTP Head requests achieve what you are looking for; > > > > On Sep 24, 2015 21:12, "Karl Wettin" <karl.wet...@kodapan.se> wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I want to send a request that download headers but no actual content. Is > >> that possible? What I'm trying to solve is to check if any URLs in a > list > >> of kazillion are broken in some way, more or less if I get a HTTP 200 > and > >> then hang up without wasting any bandwidth. > >> > >> Not sure wether or not this is in fact what HC already do if I don't > >> access entity.getContent()? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> karl > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpclient-users-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: httpclient-users-h...@hc.apache.org > >> > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpclient-users-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: httpclient-users-h...@hc.apache.org > > -- BEKK Open http://open.bekk.no TesTcl - a unit test framework for iRules http://testcl.com
